I cant play rugby well. I used to be able to but in year 8 my right knee started playing up (I have a joint problem which affects all my joints, but my right knee is the worst) which basically means that running is incredibly painful. I can run on a treadmill because there isn't much impact on my knee, but running on a regular floor/playing pitch for long is agonizing

I'm already fit though, I work out 4-6 times a week :)

But considering it took them about 6 months to give in and let me join the gym, it'll probably take about a year to let me join a martial arts club, so I'll have to lie. Or at least just say I'm going out, and not say where.

I cant play rugby well. I used to be able to but in year 8 my right knee started playing up (I have a joint problem which affects all my joints, but my right knee is the worst) which basically means that running is incredibly painful. I can run on a treadmill because there isn't much impact on my knee, but running on a regular floor/playing pitch for long is agonizing

I'm already fit though, I work out 4-6 times a week :)

But considering it took them about 6 months to give in and let me join the gym, it'll probably take about a year to let me join a martial arts club, so I'll have to lie. Or at least just say I'm going out, and not say where.

If you lie to your parents, they will find out and they wont be pleased

I wouldn't say I average even one fight a week anymore. I never start fights, it's just people on occasion start on me. But due to being arrested for assault (but never prosecuted, as all were self-defence) my parents are really worried that I may get prosecuted some time, or expelled :\

I wouldn't say I average even one fight a week anymore. I never start fights, it's just people on occasion start on me. But due to being arrested for assault (but never prosecuted, as all were self-defence) my parents are really worried that I may get prosecuted some time, or expelled :\

I figured there was something you were leaving out of your earlier, my parents cater to my brother, story. You were arrested for assault? Interesting, were the other people arrested for assault as well?

Kids, especially teens, forget they are a LIABILITY issue for their parents. If you repeatedly get into trouble, expulsion and prosecution don't come out of nowhere, I understand your parents reservation.

Re: Which Martial Art is right for me?

Originally Posted by Eddy96

I wouldn't say I average even one fight a week anymore. I never start fights, it's just people on occasion start on me. But due to being arrested for assault (but never prosecuted, as all were self-defence) my parents are really worried that I may get prosecuted some time, or expelled :\

EDIT: I used to get into loads of fights though.

I know this isn't what you want to hear, but your parents are right. It is very easy to get yourself into trouble with martial arts.

You should work on deescalation tactics. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and believe that you don't start the fights, but I'm willing to bet the conversation leading up to the fight goes something like this:

Bully: I told you you better not come around here any more, I'm gonna kick your ass.
You: Dude, I don't want to fight. I just want to go home.
Bully: What? You scared?
Crowd: Oooooohhhhhhhh. You gonna take that?
You: RARRRGGGHHHHHHH HULK SMASH!!!

You know you're doing something right when you don't even have to throw a punch or have one thrown.

Hey, sorry if I've somehow offended people. (Which I assume I did, based on the mocking replies)

When I said style, I didn't mean it in the sense of a martial art, just what I usually do when someone starts on me. (Which is pretty regular, as I have a friend who is often started on as he is unpopular, and I step in, as I dont like people smaller than me being beaten up by some dick, just cos the dick is bored.

Also on the traveller thing, I genuinely didn't do anything. The fair was in town (they organize it) and when it is there are a lot of teenage travellers roaming around and when I was walking home some attacked me.

I'm going to try out boxing again, and I've tried judo, but the local judo group which is the only one where I happen to know isn't some shitty mc dojo where you go for 2 years and come out a black belt is too far away for me to regularly attend.

yeah, that's what I said.

"Judo is a study of techniques with which you may kill if you wish to kill, injure if you wish to injure, subdue if you wish to subdue, and, when attacked, defend yourself" - Jigoro Kano (1889)
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"The judoist has no time to allow himself a margin for error, especially in a situation upon which his or another person's very life depends...."
~ The Secret of Judo (Jiichi Watanabe & Lindy Avakian), p.19

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